[Python-Dev] building python with profiling support (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jeremy at alum.mit.edu
Sat Feb 7 14:25:39 EST 2004


I've used gprof to profile the interpreter in the past, but I'm stuck trying to it again on my current machine. I configured Python by saying CC="gcc -pg" ../configure

That's the way I've built Python for profiling in the past and that's what the README says to do. The python binary that gets generated doesn't generate a gmon.out file.

It appears that the problem is with the command used to generate the actual Python executable:

c++ -pthread -Xlinker -export-dynamic -o python
Modules/python.o
libpython2.4.a -lpthread -ldl -lutil -lm

The -pg flag has been lost.

Can anyone suggest a recipe that will work? Or suggest how to modify the Makefile so that the -pg flag gets passed along.

Jeremy



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